Part I. Define the following terms.

 Brahman: It’s the great, single and almighty force that controls everything that exists,
this force is divided in three parts: Brahma (The creator), Vishnu (the preserver) and
Shiva (the destroyer).
 Vishnu: It is one of the three divisions of Brahman which acts as the preserver or
protector when the world is suffering because of evil, chaos, and destructive forces.
 Shiva: It is one of the three divisions of Brahman which is the force that represents the
role of the god that destroys the universe.
 Maya: It is the main deity that manifests, does and governs the "illusion" and the
dreams in the universe.
 Karma: this term means the consequences we must have for doing something, this
means Karma can be a payment of our good or bad actions.

Part II. Answer the next questions.

a) What’s yoga?

It’s a style Hindus have developed through the time to follow Dharma, build up Karma and to
feel spirituality.

b) Why Hinduism is so important in India?

It’s so important because they according to their religion they have divided their society in
different social classes according to the level of spirituality, these are four classes.

c) What do you think about the Caste System?

I personally think is a system I wouldn’t like to have, because if a people belong to a caste very
low that person won’t have the same privileges than another who is on another higher caste,
this can be unequal, I think we all are the same, we have the same level.

The great and strong mouse

In the jungle the great king lion prepared a competition with the purpose that every creature
had to tell their special skill. Every animal wanted to go to show their skills, but the mouse was
sad, he said I’m so small and not strong, I don’t have anything to present in the competition, and
he decided not to go.

When the day came every animal was very anxious and the lion had a whistle which he made it
sound to star the competition but he dropped accidentally his whistle on a whole, immediately
they were sad because of this. The lion asks: if someone here who can go down through the
whole and bring me the whistle, but nobody could they were so big.

Immediately someone say: I know how’ll help us, the mouse, but the mouse was not in the
competition so they decided to look for him, the cheetah went running to look for him and took
him to the competition and he went down and took out the whistle, for this the lion decided to
make him the winner of the competition because nobody was able to do what he did.